Hello, I'm wondering how I can install GNU Emacs 20 and GNU Emacs 21 Info files simultaneously. There are some restrictions of Info I've found,
* Category names has to be unique in a `dir' file. * Entry names has to be unique in a `dir' file. * ... One solution, which Debian takes, is installing Info files into subdirectories. It looks like info/dir info/emacs20/emacs info/emacs20/emacs-1 info/emacs20/emacs-2 : info/emacs21/dir info/emacs21/emacs info/emacs21/emacs-1 info/emacs21/emacs-2 And in info/dir, Emacs 20 * Ada mode e20: (emacs20/ada-mode). The GNU Emacs mode for editing Ada. : Emacs 21 * Ada mode e21: (emacs21/ada-mode). The GNU Emacs mode for editing Ada. : The problem of this is that `install-info' can't uninstall entries installed in subdirectories. For example, if I invokes `install-info' like $ install-info --delete emacs20/ada-mode it assumes `ada-mode', the basename part of `emacs20/ada-mode', is the entry. (Debian can do that because they have their own `install-info' written in Perl.) Eli Zaretskii kindly suggested another solution that installing Info files into _separate_ directories. That is, GNU Emacs 20 Info files and GNU Emacs 21 Info files have an own Info directory and a `dir' respectively. This possibly works (I have not tried,) but I don't think it's a good idea to demand all users to add INFOPATHs by themselves. So now I would like to see just another suggestion from you. If nothing, I'll go to the latter... Regards, Masao _______________________________________________ Bug-texinfo mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-texinfo
